Briefly: Political polling of what the population in the United States could be thinking today? I know what I would br thinking of thinking of besides Tr__p’s first six months. Early on, I believe Tr__p was polling lower than other presidents in office for six months. Given the state of the economy as compared to […]
Climate change is already doing a lot of harm. One of the harms is the drying of land masses. The people who live on these land masses depend on fresh water not only to drink but to grow crops for food. As surface water disappears, humanity is dipping into the corpus of its geological endowment, […]
Looking back, I realize that I came of age near the end of a golden age for universities. As an undergrad at UT-Knoxville, tuition* was ca. $160/quarter for a full load. As a grad student, I got 36 months of stipend from an NIH training grant, and my mentor’s grant paid my stipend for the […]
– by New Deal democrat My “Weekly Indicators” post is up at Seeking Alpha. With the continued pause in actual tariff increases, the data has rebounded basically across the board from April and May. Even the long leading indicators have improved somewhat, led by some un-inversions of the yield curve and the improvement in corporate profits as […]
Just an abbreviated version of an article about an appointment and how Bondi gets it wrong. In one of the more stupid episodes in an already stupid run of them, Pam Bondi gushed to social media the Trump administration would stand up to “politically minded” judges . . . and then fire Desiree Leigh Grace. […]
You don’t have to be looking to buy or sell a home to know there’s a nationwide problem with the housing market. Of course, some locations are stressed more than others. And the stress spills over into the rental market. I’m certainly no expert. We lived in our first house for 35 years. That was […]
As one commenter elsewhere stated: “Rural America hospitals in red states have been closing at an epidemic rate because the states refused to expand Medicaid under the ACA. Rural hospitals in blue states generally survive. The red states do not seem to care. Congress has not passed bills to save those red state rural hospitals” […]
When I started my faculty position at the age of 32, the university had a defined benefit plan. They would contribute 6% of my salary to my retirement investment, pre-tax. I could contribute up to 60% from my salary pre-tax, but to get the university contribution, I had to contribute at least 4%. Such a […]
A bit of Forest Gump, Paul Krugman and tariffs this Sunday morning. And as usual, dealing with Trump is a deal where you never know what you are going to get or be in the deal. “My mama always said, ‘Life was like a box of chocolates. You never know what you’re gonna get.’” Movie: […]
Cuts in healthcare . . . Medicaid is necessary to fund tax breaks for Trump, his inner circle of beneficiaries and all not needing a tax break. This particular piece by Kaiser Family Foundation focuses on the impact to those who use Medicaid. Low in income, people are the main users of Medicaid. An ~10 […]